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Action folds to Hero (92BB stack) on button with Kd9d, who opens to 3BB Villain (SB, covers hero) 3 bets to 12.5BB, BB folds, Hero calls.
Reads on Villain: we're a new group of quarantine poker players. We've played around 400-500 hands together over 8-9 sessions. Villain is constantly improving his game, and has gone from wild sizings and bluffs to a pretty tight value range with standard sizings, and has added preflop bluffs to his game over the previous 2 sessions.
Flop comes out Qc 10d 6d. Pot is 26 BB.
Hero picks up a flush draw and a gutshot. Villain checks. Hero figures if he doesn't bluff this hand he doesn't know what he bluffs and bets 17.5 BB, and villain tanks for a long time and calls.
I'm confident this is a premium bluffing hand, as I not only have the flush draw and the gutshot but I also block Villain from being able to continue with diamonds or a straight draw as well. What I'm not confident in is the sizing, I think the size is too high but I'm not sure I understand the logic to bring it down. I would personally bet the same size with top pair high kicker/2 pair/sets to charge draws, so I think keeping the same sizes to keep my bluff/value sizes consistent would make sense.
Pot is now 61BB, Hero has a 62BB stack. Turn comes out 2s, which is a brick, and Villain checks.
Hero still has a flush draw and gutshot, and figures this is still a premium bluffing hand. Looking at the stack to pot ratios, hero believes all in is the only bluff size, and decides to go all in, which would have to be balanced by 2pair/sets that are still super premium hands.
Given the stack to pot ratios, is there anything you guys would have played differently? I've realized a lot of my sizings are above standard so I'm curious to know what the logic is for bringing them down. I'm getting a lot of folds on my value hands, but I'm getting a lot of folds for my bluffs as well.
Action folds to Hero (92BB stack) on button with Kd9d, who opens to 3BB Villain (SB, covers hero) 3 bets to 12.5BB, BB folds, Hero calls.
Reads on Villain: we're a new group of quarantine poker players. We've played around 400-500 hands together over 8-9 sessions. Villain is constantly improving his game, and has gone from wild sizings and bluffs to a pretty tight value range with standard sizings, and has added preflop bluffs to his game over the previous 2 sessions.
Flop comes out Qc 10d 6d. Pot is 26 BB.
Hero picks up a flush draw and a gutshot. Villain checks. Hero figures if he doesn't bluff this hand he doesn't know what he bluffs and bets 17.5 BB, and villain tanks for a long time and calls.
I'm confident this is a premium bluffing hand, as I not only have the flush draw and the gutshot but I also block Villain from being able to continue with diamonds or a straight draw as well. What I'm not confident in is the sizing, I think the size is too high but I'm not sure I understand the logic to bring it down. I would personally bet the same size with top pair high kicker/2 pair/sets to charge draws, so I think keeping the same sizes to keep my bluff/value sizes consistent would make sense.
Pot is now 61BB, Hero has a 62BB stack. Turn comes out 2s, which is a brick, and Villain checks.
Hero still has a flush draw and gutshot, and figures this is still a premium bluffing hand. Looking at the stack to pot ratios, hero believes all in is the only bluff size, and decides to go all in, which would have to be balanced by 2pair/sets that are still super premium hands.
Given the stack to pot ratios, is there anything you guys would have played differently? I've realized a lot of my sizings are above standard so I'm curious to know what the logic is for bringing them down. I'm getting a lot of folds on my value hands, but I'm getting a lot of folds for my bluffs as well.
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